Mercenary outfit led by Colonel Rachel
Danvers. Friday signed on
with them, allegedly for duty as bodyguard to the new Chairman of the Chicago
Imperium, because it gave her a way into the Imperium. The outfit was
probably completely destroyed (except for Friday) in the explosion of the Skip to
M'Lou.

Partner in the investigation firm Randall & Craig, hired by Jonathan
Hoag to discover his profession. Her soul was stolen by the Sons of the
Bird to force her husband to drop the case; after she recovered and they
learned the truth about Hoag, they fled to a remote island to live a virtual
hermit's existence, never leaving each other's presence.

("The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag")

Edward (Ted) Randall

Partner in Randall & Craig, Cynthia's husband. Although he was
attacked and kidnapped by the Sons of the
Bird, he still helped Jonathan
Hoag learn his true nature.

("The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag")

Randall

True name of Fader Magee;
he was a captain in the United States Secret Service.

("Coventry")

Randavians

[mentioned in passing] Nonhumans, possibly avian, who had
diplomatic ties to the Terran Federation.

Cat that was Maureen
Johnson's (delayed) wedding present to Brian Smith.
They acquired him after they bought a house. He was originally named Fluffy
Ruffles until his sex was discovered. Brian bestowed the name Random Numbers
(or Random, or Randie) on him because of his extremely changeable behavior.

Hole-in-the-wall shop through which the Section offices
could be reached.

(The Puppet Masters)

Rargyllians

Alien race that had diplomatic ties to Earth and most other planets. They
acted as interpreters and emissaries throughout the galaxy. They resembled
Medusas and had dry, chitinous purple skin with green highlights; they lacked
noses but had tails.

(The Star Beast)

Lt. Rasczak (no first name)

Juan
Rico's platoon leader In the Rodger
Young. His platoon always called him "the Lieutenant", in tones of awe. He
died in a drop after rescuing two of his soldiers; he was the only one in that
raid who didn't make the retrieval boat. His platoon, kept the name Rasczak's
Roughnecks after his death.

(Starship Troopers)

Rasczak's Roughnecks

The platoon to which Juan Rico was
assigned in the Rodger
Young, it retained the name even after the death of its leader, Lt.
Rasczak.

[mentioned in passing] Planet populated by nonhumans. It
had diplomatic ties to Terra.

(Tunnel in the Sky)

rats

Those encountered on Nevia were as
large as wolves, and hungrier. Oscar Gordon
had a phobia about them, stemming from unpleasant childhood experiences; one
of the Eater
of Soul's attacks was an hallucination of a rat swarm.

Colony planet closed to immigrants, except that individual scientists and
artists may enter by negotiation. By implication, it is the farthest
settlement from Earth. Its ruling family hired Friday to
transport a fertilized ovum from Earth.

(Friday)

recessives

Because of their intensive inbreeding to preserve the longevity strain,
the Howard
Families suffered an unusually high incidence of physical and mental birth
defects. Approximately five percent of these defectives were telepathically
sensitive.

Day of strikes against all major governments by unknown parties (though
numerous fringe groups took credit). It turned out to be part of a feud among
various factions of Shipstone. The
plot included an attack on British Canada by Quebec, assassination of the
Chairman of the Chicago
Imperium, and the closing of the Canada/Imperium border.

(Friday)

Reeves (no first name)

Headmaster of Ranchito
Alegre. A reserve officer, he was called to active duty "for the duration"
because of the tensions between Earth and Venus. His wife
(mentioned only as Mrs. Reeves), took over running the school. He was usually
called simply, "The Head."

Young girl kidnapped by Wormface's
minions who hoped to force her scientist father to cooperate with them. With
Kip
Russell's help, she and the Mother Thing
signalled the Vegans and effected their rescue. She was called to testify for
Earth in the Lanador
tribunal, and afterwards was returned safely home.

(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)

rejuvenation

1. The method discovered on Earth during
the Howard
Families' exile retarded rather than reversing the aging process; it
consisted largely of replacing the entire blood tissue.

(Methuselah's Children)

2. Widely used, it involved replacement
of vital organs as well as chemical restoration of the body's functions. The
patient could be made to look any age, while functioning youthfully. Cloned
bodies were often grown to provide compatible replacement organs.

(Time Enough for Love, The Number of the Beast, To Sail
Beyond the Sunset)

Fosterites
who, it was announced by the church, would soon be going to Heaven.

(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Mr. Renwick (no first name)

Driver-salesman for the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, whose
route included Maureen
Johnson's house in Kansas City.
Maureen acquired the cat Random
Numbers thanks to him, but disappointed his hopes of getting sexual favors
from her.

[mentioned in passing] A splinter political party, with few
members under age 65.

(I Will Fear No Evil)

Research Engineer Emeritus

Title given to Daniel
Boone Davis by Hired Girl in
the year 2000. It was a strictly honorary position for public relations. When
he took control of the company, he gave the title to the former Chief Engineer
to get him out of the way.

Intoxicating beverage on Venus. It was
addictive but it made conditions tolerable for contract laborers. The
laborers, of course, bought the rhira from their employers for a large enough
price that they were never able to save enough to buy out their contracts.

Dusty was a telepath aboard the Lewis &
Clark; he was obnoxious, but valued for his ability to communicate in
pictures, not just words. He was killed in an attack by Elysian natives.
Rusty was his Earthside twin.

1. Born in the Ozarks, he became a
jetman second class for the Harriman
Line. After being blinded, he became an itinerant musician, bumming rides
on his former employer's ships to various planets on the pretext of his being
a "distressed spacer." He continued hitchhiking even after the Harriman Line
officially banned the practice. He died while trying to control a power room
emergency in the Falcon. Most of
his music was published posthumously.

("The Green Hills of Earth")

2. Poet known to Bill Lermer,
tentatively credited for the line, "I have lived and worked with men." Bill
also knew "The Green Hills of Earth".

5. Blind singer taken in by the whores
in Lazarus
Long's bordello; he was soon earning his own way with his music. After
leaving Mars, he
became a famous musician in Luna City. He
claimed to have been an engineer on a Harriman liner before his accident.

Juan
Rico's father, a wealthy Filipino businessman. He opposed Johnnie's plans
to join the Mobile
Infantry, but after the Bug War began and
his wife died, he himself joined and eventually became a platoon sergeant.

(Starship Troopers)

Juan [Johnnie] Rico

Son of a wealthy family who joined the Mobile
Infantry almost on impulse and over his parents' objections. After
achieving a rank of corporal and surviving several battles, he entered Officer
Candidate School at his commander's urging. He eventually became a captain,
commanding a battalion on his original ship, with his father a sergeant under
him.

The New Zealand judge who granted the Davidson
family's annulment against Friday.

(Friday)

Eric Ridpath

Grand
Hotel Augustus house physician. He treated Maureen
Johnson for her apparent amnesia, and befriended her when she revealed
that she had no idea where she was or how she got there, and had not even
clothes to call her own.

Member of the first Mars expedition. A
geologist, selenologist, and ship's hydroponicist, she was 32 years old when
the expedition began. She died during the expedition.

(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Sergei Rimsky

Member of the first Mars expedition. An
electronics engineer, chemical engineer, practical machinist, instrumentation
man, and cryologist, he was 35 years old when the expedition began. He died
during the expedition.

(Stranger in a Strange Land)

ringroad

Transportation system similar to railroads. The "tracks" generated
high-power magnetic fields to power and direct the trains. The name comes from
the rings that generated the magnetic field, through which the trains
traveled.

Stereoshow broadcast from Zone Red,
which Sam
Cavanaugh encountered while looking for clues of conditions there.

(The Puppet Masters)

Rising Star

[mentioned in passing] Spaceship that collided with the
patrol vessel Trygve Lie,
leaving no survivors in either ship.

(The Rolling Stones)

River of the Water of Life

River that flows through Heaven from the Throne of God. Alex
Hergensheimer sought an information booth near it.

(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Rivera (no first name)

Interplanetary
Patrol hero, a deceased Commander whose name was called at every Patrol
muster. Sent to his native city to negotiate with belligerents, he ordered an
immediate attack should he be taken hostage, and was killed when his orders
were carried out.

As traditional highways were replaced by automated roadways, communities
sprang up along the roadways' routes,and often the roadways were large enough
to include buildings and small communities on the moving surface. As the
roadtowns grew, many old cities and towns were largely abandoned, and new
municipal boundaries were defined by the roadway routes.

("The Roads Must Roll"; also mentioned in "The Man Who Sold the Moon" and
To Sail Beyond the Sunset.)

Hank Robbins

[mentioned in passing] Acquaintance of Rod Walker
whose grandfather had gone into stasis in hopes of waiting for a disease cure,
to no avail.

One of Friday's
kidnappers/rapists, in reality an undercover agent who participated only
reluctantly. He was later assigned to "guard" her aboard the Forward. After
she confronted him, they joined forces to jump ship at Botany Bay.
During her kidnapping Friday called him "Straw Boss" for lack of another name;
in the Forward he used the alias "Howard Bullfinch."

Sam
Anderson told Max Jones the
story of an acquaintance who was an Imperial
Marine sergeant until he got drunk, missed his ship, and never had the
nerve to turn himself in; his name may also have been Richards. Sam later
denied having told the story; he may have been referring to himself.

Institution where Alex
Hergensheimer had been an undergraduate; he left there to study for the
ministry. [The same as the Rolla Institute from which Brian Smith
graduated in (To Sail Beyond the Sunset?]

(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Rolling Stone

Name finally chosen for the Stone
family spaceship, after rejecting such nominations as The Clunker, Dauntless,
Go-Devil, Icarus, Iron Duke, Jabberwock, Morning Star, Onward, Oom Paul, and
H.M.S. Pinafore. Roger Stone
also sarcastically suggested R.S. Deadlock, Hairshirt, and Madhouse. The
Rolling Stone was inspired by Hazel
Stone's comment about "gathering no moss"; the family also called the ship
"the Rock".

Roosevelt had polio in all time lines except time line two
(home of Maureen
Johnson); in time line two, he was elected to a third U.S. presidential
term, but died of a stroke while playing tennis before his inauguration.

Among other things, the repository of bills of sale, manumissions, etc. on
Jubbulpore.

(Citizen of the Galaxy)

Royal Mexican Coast Guard

Organization that rescued Alex
Hergensheimer and Margrethe
Gunderson from the ocean. The two were billed for the service, since the
central government insisted that all departments be self-supporting.

(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

Royal Order of the Wet Diaper

Certificate "awarded" to David Lamb
after his first landing on an aircraft carrier.

(Time Enough for Love)

Flossie Royer

Gossipy old woman aboard the Tricorn. She
showed an initial interest in Podkayne
Fries, quizzing her about her home and family, but soon started treating
her as a personal servant in the belief that she was "teaching her how to
behave around her betters". Podkayne reported to her brother Clark insulting
remarks Mrs. Royer had made about Marsmen in
general and the Fries family in particular. Mrs. Royer showed up shortly after
with photographic chemical stains on her face. ("Someone" had soaked her
washcloth in the chemicals and then carefully dried it in total darkness, so
that wetting the washcloth and using it in a lighted room activated the
chemicals.)

Martian
who assaulted Dak
Broadbent's hotel suite and was killed by him. He and Larry Smith
disposed of the body by cutting it up into tiny pieces and washing it down the
tub drain.

(Double Star)

Rudbek

a.Thorby
Rudbek's home estate, also a town of the same name (originally called
Johnson's Hole), near the Grand Tetons. b.
The financial, industrial, and real-estate interests of the Rudbek (and Weemsby)
families.

(Citizen of the Galaxy)

Creighton Rudbek

Thorby's
father, probably killed in a slaver raid while touring the Rudbek family's
interplanetary holdings. Born Creighton Bradley, he
assumed his wife's name on marriage.

Thorby
Rudbek's mother, probably killed in a slaver raid while traveling with her
husband and son. She was heir to the Rudbek fortune.

(Citizen of the Galaxy)

Thor Bradley (Thorby) Rudbek

Heir to the Rudbek fortune,
he was lost when his parents and he were captured in a slaver raid. He was
purchased as a child on Jubbul by Terran
Hegemony agent Richard
Baslim in his guise as Baslim the Cripple. Baslim trained him in
memorization techniques, educated him, and used him as a messenger in his
undercover operations. After Baslim's death, Thorby delivered a memorized
message to Fjalar
Krausa of the Free
Traders, instructing any Free Trader to discharge their debt to Baslim by
taking care of Thorby. He was adopted by the
crew of the Sisu
until Krausa determined that Thorby was not born a Free Trader, then handed
off to the Hegemonic
Guard to have his true identity researched. He was briefly a Guard member
until he was discovered to be the Rudbek heir, then taken to Earth to assume
his family role. After a struggle with a step-uncle, in which he learned his
family businesses might be behind the slave trade, he took control of the
holdings and mobilized his resources behind finding ways to stop the slavers.

1.Star's grandson and
a comparative culturologist. He acted as Oscar
Gordon's groom on the quest for the Egg of the
Phoenix. After Oscar returned to Earth and realized he was not happy
there, he contacted Rufo and they set off searching for another adventure.
Some of Rufo's colleagues called him "the Mad Scientist" for his radical
theories.

Joe
Briggs' name for Mrs. Keithley's
agent who stole his wallet and guided him to the hotel where a trap had been
laid for him; Briggs also called him Shorty.

("Gulf")

Clifford (Kip) Russell

High school student who won a spacesuit while aiming for the first prize
of a trip to the Moon. He completely restored the suit, and while testing the
radio accidentally contacted Peewee
Reisfeld, who was trying to escape from kidnappers. He was taken captive
with her and involved in a plot by aliens to invade Earth. He nearly died
setting a rescue beacon after defeating his kidnappers, and after recovering
was required to testify for Earth in the Lanador tribunal
staged to determine whether Earth was any threat to the rest of the galactic
community. When he returned home Peewee's father, a Nobel scientist, arranged
a scholarship to MIT for him.

(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)

Emma Russell

Kip's
mother, described as having been her husband's star pupil before their
marriage.

(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)

Penelope Taliaferro (Penny) Russell

1. The Honorable member of the Grand
Assembly representing districtless university women (she had an MA in
government administration from Georgetown University) and John
Joseph Bonforte's personal secretary. Bonforte called her "Curly Top". She
had to overcome strong personal feelings for Bonforte to aid Larry Smith
in his impersonation. After the impersonation became permanent, she married
Smith.

Kip's
father, a prominent scientist who retired to a small town over his colleagues'
protests to raise his son. He occasionally agreed to take on projects for the
government, but mostly didn't want to be bothered by the outside world.

(Have Space Suit — Will Travel)

Russell (no first name)

[mentioned in passing] Member of Lazarus
Long's World War I combat platoon.

1. Independent government, possibly no
longer part of the USSR [Friday was written before the dissolution of
the USSR]. It defeated Prussia in a war.

(Friday)

2. It was ruled by a tsar in Alex
Hergensheimer's homeworld. In Alec Graham's
world, it was ruled by the Grand Duke of Muscovy, a constitutional monarch who
no longer claimed suzerain over other Slavic states.

(Job: A Comedy of Justice)

3. The "Mars" that the crew
of the Gay
Deceiver visited had an earthlike environment and had been colonized by
both Great Britain and Russia.

(The Number of the Beast)

4. Plague broke out in Russia and China
probably as a result of the puppet
masters' unconcern about human needs, particularly hygiene.

(The Puppet Masters)

5. The territory was affected by The Terror, but
not as severely as North America.

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